In April 2005 a factory making sweaters for the European market collapsed during the nightshift in Savar, Bangladesh. The circumstances of this disaster, which caused the deaths of 64 clothing workers and injured a further 84, proved to be a final straw for trade unionists and NGO activists who had long been concerned about the state of factory safety.

Last Nightshift in Savar: The Story of the Spectrum Sweater Factory Collapse

Business & Money

Miller, Doug

Biography & History

McNidder and Grace

Key West is the end of the world for some. A variety of people come to the island for an assortment of reasons. Our reason, aside from celebrating Reno's bachelor party, was to experience 'Margaritaville', not the bar - but that place in your mind or dreams where everything is perfect. The sun always shines, the people are always happy, there is no business talk and your worries simply drift away. Every day is a holiday and every meal is a feast. This is a place where you can escape. The sun energizes the soul, nighttime elevates the heartbeat, laughter fills the air, and you end up talking for hours with your friends you brought along or just met. You fall asleep to the sound of the sea quietly rushing in and out and awake to the sound of seagulls and the smell of sea salt. That's why we found ourselves walking down Duval Street that night. It was all present here, at least that is how we envisioned our journey to the Southern Zone. We were wrong.

Hurricane Season

Literature & Fiction

Pugh, John

Contemporary

lulu.com

Doug Miller—a lifetime drug-free bodybuilder—won the 2009 world championship of the International Federation of Physique Athletes. He also graduated first in his class from Penn State with a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology. Doug used his knowledge of biology and biochemistry to build a world-class physique and now he’s sharing his secrets for the first time. In this book, Doug teamed up with a professional writer and a professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School to explain the key scientific concepts to help you: • Choose the right foods to drop fat and gain muscle • Create a safe, effective exercise program that works for you • Bring new levels of focus and intensity to your workouts • Regulate post-workout recovery to maximize progress • Maintain a healthy hormonal system for optimal health • Create a potent mind-muscle connection to become leaner and stronger Not a bodybuilder? No Problem! All the science in this book is about basic human biology. Young, old, tall, short, muscular, flabby... whatever! All humans are the same at the cellular level. From the Preface ...Most people who work out understand, in a vague way, that weight training causes tiny tears in the muscle fibers which the body repairs by sending in energy (in the form of sugar) and spare parts (in the form of protein) making the fibers slightly stronger and bigger. Building muscle involves repeating this process many times as efficiently as possible. So far, so good. Beyond this point, however, the details start to get a little hazy—even for people who’ve been hitting the gym for a long time. What I wanted to do in this book is share my approach to dieting and training, and explain some of the methods and lifestyle habits I used to become a successful natural bodybuilder (including a few interesting anecdotes). But I also wanted to explain in clear language how the biochemical and biomechanical processes of building muscle actually work; how they can be made more efficient by properly regulating your nutritional needs and recovery; and by choosing the right nutritional supplements to maximize your fitness goals and control body fat. That is a lot of ground to cover, so in addition to Glenn’s help with the writing, I’m also grateful for the invaluable assistance of my other co-author, Dr. Kevin Fontaine. Dr. Fontaine is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He has a longstanding interest in using resistance exercise to improve health and wellbeing. This book would not have possible without him; and he even helped restructure the theme and tone of the book—making it a lot more readable. Plus, his experience, training, and extensive research background really helped to give this project a solid scientific foundation. Despite the title, this book is not only for bodybuilders, certainly not only for competitive bodybuilders. More and more people are weight training these days, whether for a sport, overall health, or just to look better. And everyone in America seems to be on a diet. The information presented here is intended to be useful for anyone seeking to builder a stronger, more attractive physique.

Biology for Bodybuilders: One of the world's most successful drug-free bodybuilders shares his training secrets and explains the key scientific concepts that will help you get healthier and stronger.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ellmers, Glenn

Fontaine, PhD, Kevin

Exercise & Fitness

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Short, humorous essays in the form of fictitious submissions to an advice column written by a well-read but street-savvy plumber.

Jack Pipe, Plumber and Personal Counselor

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

A collection of short, humorous literary pieces, usually based on factual instances reported by news organizations. Many of the essays are illustrated with line drawings created by graphic artist Steve Hussey.

Cherry Farcical: A Ridiculously Unrealistic Attempt at Resurrecting American Literary Humor (You with the clown shoes and orange hair. Move on. There's nothing here for you...)

Smart founders find a wealth of playbooks to help them reach product-market-fit. But after they do, the playbook is missing.Raising more capital is easy now, but how do you spend it wisely? Are you just growing for the sake of growth, or do you have a specific target in mind?Having lived through three tech scale-ups and working with many founders, Roland Siebelink and Doug Miller argue that founders should set their sights on product-market-dominance.This means following a proven roadmap that can feel like a rollercoaster, And focusing efforts on entrenching themselves deeply into a mainstream market before competitors can catch up.Combining the best of Gazelles growth company coaching with timeless Silicon Valley advice, Roland and Doug provide scaleup founders with the first playbooks particularly focused on (Vol.I) mid-stage and (Vol.II) late-stage tech ventures.

Scaling Silicon Valley Style. Growing Big But not Corporate. Vol.I: Mid-Stage: The playbook for the mid-stage startup. From seed funding to Series C. (Midstage Startup Manuals)

Siebelink, Roland

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Can the World be Wrong?: Where Global Public Opinion Says We're Headed

When the global economy and world order become uncertain, where do we look for a sense of where things are heading? Can the World Be Wrong? lays out a compelling case for looking to long-term trends in global public opinion to help predict the future. Written by a pioneer of global polling, the book is provocatively illustrated by decade-long public opinion trends across 20 countries, on subjects ranging from geopolitics, globalization, the economy, the role of companies and the UN, to changing consumer trends and the future of democracy in the 21st century. Doug Miller, the founder and Chairman of the global research consultancy GlobeScan Inc., offers 30 never-before-released global opinion polls that inform this exposé of where the world may be headed. This essentially optimistic book delivers a fascinating briefing on below-the-radar trends that business leaders and policy-makers follow closely and thoughtful citizens need to understand. Miller brings his topics alive with behind-the-scenes looks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre (Brazil), the International Business Leaders Forum in London, the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the White House, and boardrooms around the world. Can the World be Wrong? reveals what we really think of our leaders, businesses and policy-makers, and what this might all say about where we're headed in the 21st century. The book is essential reading for leaders, managers, policy-makers and researchers seeking to understand the power of global opinion and the implications it may have.

Elkington, John

Business Culture

Routledge

Malawi is a small and poorly known country, but the crimes committed against its people by the brutal dictatorship of Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda are a part of our shared human history. It is about what happens when governments turn state violence on their own people with impunity. The book gives voice to Malawians who were arbitrarily imprisoned, who fled for their lives into exile, or who suffered silently under the regime's state-sponsored terror from 1964 to 1994. These are not easy stories for the victims to tell and people in power do not want them to be made public. To add to the indignity endured by the regime's victims, Malawi's current leadership has been rehabilitating Banda's image and honouring him, despite well-documented reports of atrocities and abuse of human rights. Nevertheless, even unpleasant history must be openly faced, discussed and acknowledged to provide lessons for the future. The book helps redress this one-sided revision of Malawian history. Fifty years after independence, the Malawi people continue to suffer in absolute poverty and in greater numbers than ever, because the lessons of history from Malawi's lost years have not been learned.

Malawi's Lost Years (1964-1994)

History

Mwakasungura, Kapote

Africa

Mzuni Press

Midstage Momentum: How 40 of the Brightest New Founders are Maximizing their Startup Traction, Growth and Valuation (Midstage Startup Manuals)

Zarpentine, Bryan

Samios, Anna

Founaud, Carlos

Sandy, Ken

Feuz, Martin

Southall, Diana

Management & Leadership

Independently published

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